"You want to move out?" Ur said when the boys told her their plan.

"We know it's pretty sudden Aunt Ur but we're adults now and we can't just mooch off of you. It wouldn't be right." Gray said.

"Don't be silly, I know for a fact that you two would never mooch off of me." She said. "But you are adults and if you feel that you need to get out and live on your own I understand."

"So you're okay with this?"

"Of course. I didn't expect you to live with me forever Gray and I'm sure that Natsu is very anxious to move on to a knew place."

"I'm so relieved that this doesn't upset you."

"When will you be leaving?"

"Well today we're going into town to look for apartment buildings on campus that we can afford."

"That's nice. Will you two be home late?"

"I don't know but I'll call you if we are."

"Alright dear. Good luck with your search." Ur kissed her nephew's cheek then went into the kitchen to do the dishes.

It wasn't until she heard the front door close, signifying that the boys were gone that she let her tears fall. She had been dreading this day for years. The day her sweet little nephew would leave the nest. Of course she knew that it was inevitable and she had accepted it she just didn't expect herself to be so saddened by this.

Gray was pretty much the closest thing she had to raising a child to adulthood. She had known the joys of natural motherhood once before. It was a few years before Gray was born and she was in her senior of high school when her boyfriend at the time got her pregnant. He dumped her when she wouldn't get an abortion and her parents had disowned her when they found out. But her older sister Mika, Gray's mother had allowed her to move in with her and help her raise the baby.

Mika and her husband Silver, Gray's father were so very supportive of Ur. They helped her get a job, paid for medical expenses, they even built a nursery. Then came the day she had her baby, her daughter who she loved the moment she saw her. She had never been so happy in her entire life. But her daughter had been born with an extremely weak immune system, causing her to suffer from so many illnesses. Eventually the poor thing died at age four, breaking Ur's heart.

Mika and Silver comforted her in her time of grief. Promising her that they would always be there for her when she needed them. She was grief stricken for a long time but she found joy again on the day Mika gave birth to Gray. As soon she held her baby nephew for the first time she felt the same instant love that she had felt when she held her daughter that first time.

After Silver and Mika's funerals she made a promise at their graves. That she would always look after Gray and raise him well. She had hoped that she had raised him the way her sister and brother-in-law had wanted him to be raised.

She glanced over at the picture frame sitting on her shelf. It contained a photograph of Silver, Mika, and Gray together when he was a little boy. They were standing underneath a shady tree, Silver and Mika were hand in hand while Gray was sitting on top of his father's shoulders, all three of them smiling. Ur picked up the picture frame and held it over her heart.

"I hope I did a good job Mika. I really do."

...

Natsu and Gray searched through a lot of adds for affordable apartment buildings unfortunately a lot of them were either full or too expensive.

"I give up." Gray said. "We're never going to find a place."

"Wait a minute, how about this one?" Natsu said looking at one add. "This building has two open rooms and it's in our price range."

"But it says that roommates are assigned. I thought we were going to room together."

"Well that does change things but so far this is all we have. Besides it's all we have for now."

"Good point."

So they went down to the building and talked with the land lord. It was a campus paid for building so that explained the assigning of roommates. Within a week they were moved in but they wouldn't be rooming with each other. However during the week they prepared for everything they didn't meet their roommates at all.

"My roommate is some guy who's supposed to inherit his dad's company or something." Gray said. "Probably a stuck up rich kid. Man I can't stand those people. What about yours?"

"I haven't heard anything about him but apparently he goes to the same college of us."

"Hmm... Maybe we know him. What's his name?"

"I didn't catch that but if he goes to our college he must be a smart guy."

"I guess. Changing the subject, I learned an interesting fact about Lucy the other day."

"Really? What did you learn?" Natsu asked before taking a sip of soda.

"Well according to Juvia, she has a crush on you."

Natsu spat out his drink in shock.

"Really?! She has a crush on me?!"

"Technically Red Dragon but then again he is you do yeah."

"Wow! I don't believe it! The girl of my dreams has a crush on me."

"Actually your alter ego."

"Oh...Yeah." He said realizing the downside of this. "And I can't ever tell her that I am that guy she likes can I?"

"I'm afraid not bro."

"Man this bites."

"Hey at least she likes one part of you."

"A part of me that she doesn't even know is me."

"Hold on, we don't know for sure if that's a fact. Juvia could have made a mistake. She might still just be interested in Loke."

"That doesn't make me feel better."

"Sorry."